A movie about how Jaegers suck at fighting... (Spoilers are kept to the minimum, if there even are any)

Rating: 5/10 (28 July 2013)

The movie's amazingly detailed graphics and the top-notch sound (soundtrack included) couldn't entirely hide the fact that the depicted robots (Jaegers) suck badly at their primary purpose, namely kicking monsters' (Kaijus) behind.
If you see what complex ninja-style moves the robot pilots are trained to execute and what of it they actually apply in the combat, you would think that their time would be much better spent on the cardio bike to improve the pedal-boat-like steering of the Jaegers. The Jaegers pilots' weapon of choice is usually boxing as well as Greco-Roman wrestling and only on a rare occasion something more effective, like built-in piercing weapons, will be used. The Kaijus in contrast do not hesitate to go directly for the head with all means possible. Also, due to the pilots' superb theoretical combat skills ( e.g. "51 drops - 51 kills" in the simulator ) the movie makers must have chosen to show rather unlucky days for the Jaegers, for which we rarely get few minutes (or sometimes seconds) to get emotionally attached. The double-teaming on Kaijus is as well yet to be discovered by Jaeger pilots.
As a bottom line, one wishes that the movie makers would have invited King Kong, who fought miles more spectacular and gloriously than any of the Jaegers. AND, we could actually see it better, since in Pacific Rim you will rarely have any orientation in the fights, due to the rapid change of the view, dark surroundings and almost no zoomed-out perspectives.
So, don't get a false impression of the film's average rating: it is given on the scale of World War Z rating and not the films like District 9. But if you don't care about the above flaws and just want to see big monsters get punched in the face, then the Pacific Rim is definitely your movie.